Comparing the racial diversity of the journalists | ||||||||||
at America's daily newspapers | ||||||||||
with the communities that they serve | ||||||||||
Newsroom diversity report for | ||||||||||
Logan Daily News | ||||||||||
Logan, Ohio | ||||||||||
Owner: Brown Publishing (Ohio) | ||||||||||
From a report for the Knight Foundation | ||||||||||
by Bill Dedman and Stephen K. Doig, June 2005 | ||||||||||
Click here to read the national report or to select another newspaper | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | |||||||||
2005 | Did not report | |||||||||
2004 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2003 | Did not report | |||||||||
2002 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2001 | 0.0 | |||||||||
2000 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1999 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1998 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1997 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1996 | Did not report | |||||||||
1995 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1994 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1993 | Did not report | |||||||||
1992 | 0.0 | |||||||||
1991 | Did not report | |||||||||
1990 | Did not report | |||||||||
The latest year at peak is | 2004 | |||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Newsroom Diversity Index | ||||||||||
for Logan Daily News | ||||||||||
Year | Non-white % of newsroom staff | Non-white % of circulation area | Newsroom Diversity Index (parity=100) | |||||||
2005 | N/A | 2.5 | N/A | |||||||
2004 | 0.0 | 2.5 | 0 | |||||||
How the index is calculated | ||||||||||
The Newsroom Diversity Index is the non-white percentage of the newsroom staff | ||||||||||
divided by the non-white percentage of residents in the circulation area. | ||||||||||
(Parity = 100.) | ||||||||||
Company index | ||||||||||
This newspaper's owner, Brown Publishing (Ohio), | ||||||||||
has a companywide, circulation-weighted Diversity Index of 52. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Peer group comparison | ||||||||||
for Logan Daily News | ||||||||||
This paper | ||||||||||
Peer group | ||||||||||
The median Diversity Index is 0 for all newspapers | ||||||||||
reporting in this circulation category of 5,000 and fewer daily sales. | ||||||||||
An example of a newspaper of similar circulation, in an area of similar level of non-white residents, but one that has a relatively high Diversity Index, is The Evening Times, Little Falls, New York, with a 20 percent non-white staff in a community that is 2.5 percent non-white. Its index is 791. | ||||||||||
FYI, in circulation, this newspaper's average weekday circulation of | ||||||||||
approximately 4,230 ranks 1223 out of 1,410 daily newspapers in the US. | ||||||||||
See the notes and definitions section below for the sources of these figures. | ||||||||||
Details on race/ethnicity | ||||||||||
in the circulation area | ||||||||||
and the home county | ||||||||||
of Logan Daily News | ||||||||||
Circulation area | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
|
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Hispanic | 0.6 | 130 | ||||||||
Black | 0.4 | 85 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.1 | 21 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 74 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 16 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 255 | ||||||||
Non-white | 2.5 | 581 | ||||||||
White | 97.5 | 22,541 | ||||||||
Total | 23,122 | |||||||||
Home county: Hocking | ||||||||||
Race/ethnicity | % of population | Number of residents |
|
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Hispanic | 0.4 | 124 | ||||||||
Black | 0.9 | 257 | ||||||||
Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.1 | 22 | ||||||||
Native-American | 0.3 | 78 | ||||||||
Other non-white | 0.1 | 15 | ||||||||
Multi-racial | 1.1 | 306 | ||||||||
Non-white | 2.8 | 802 | ||||||||
White | 97.2 | 27,439 | ||||||||
Total | 28,241 | |||||||||
The home county of this newspaper is Hocking. | ||||||||||
About this report | ||||||||||
This third annual report for the Knight Foundation adds context to an annual survey by the American Society of Newspaper Editors. ASNE has set a goal that | ||||||||||
every newspaper, to help it know its community and gather the news, should employ at least one non-white journalist, and that newspapers should strive to | ||||||||||
employ non-whites in proportion to their share of the community. ASNE's report, at www.asne.org, shows each newspaper's non-white employment, but does | ||||||||||
not disclose how closely that employment mirrors the newspaper's circulation area. | ||||||||||
That gap is filled by the report you are reading now. This report was not done by ASNE, but was done for the Knight Foundation by Bill Dedman and | ||||||||||
Stephen K. Doig. It shows how close each newspaper is to ASNE's goal, by comparing the newsroom staffing with the circulation area population. | ||||||||||
The full report is at www.powerreporting.com/knight. | ||||||||||
Notes and definitions | ||||||||||
1. The Newsroom Diversity Index is the non-white percentage of the newsroom staff divided by the non-white percentage of the circulation area's residents. Parity = 100. | ||||||||||
2. Source for staffing: Survey by American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 2005. Newspapers report non-white staff as of the end of the previous year. | ||||||||||
3. Following ASNE's definition, newsroom staff includes only supervisors, reporters, editors, copy/layout editors and photographers. | ||||||||||
4. Also following ASNE's definition, "whites," "blacks," etc., exclude Hispanics, who are counted in a separate category. | ||||||||||
5. Source for boundaries of this newspaper's circulation area: ZIP Code circulation data, Audit Bureau of Circulations, latest available. | ||||||||||
6. A paper may define its circulation area differently for marketing efforts, or news coverage, or to set advertising rates. | ||||||||||
7. If ZIP Codes or counties are used, this report applies a threshold: 10 percent household penetration is required to include an area in the circulation area. | ||||||||||
8. Source for the demographics of residents of that circulation area: US Census 2000. | ||||||||||
9. Source for total circulation: Editor & Publisher magazine, Monday-Friday average at year-end 2004. | ||||||||||
10. Staff of non-English publications, such as the Miami Herald's El Nuevo Herald, are excluded from the ASNE staffing survey for the first time this year. | ||||||||||
Demographics of ZIP Codes | ||||||||||
where sales were reported by | ||||||||||
Logan Daily News | ||||||||||
Note that some ZIP Codes listed here may not have been included in determining the newspaper's circulation area. In calculating the Diversity Index, a | ||||||||||
ZIP Code was included only if the household penetration was at least 10 percent. Any lower-penetration ZIP Codes are also listed here for your information. | ||||||||||
Also, if the newspaper reported more than 300 ZIP Codes, only the top 300 in weekday sales are listed here. | ||||||||||
ZIP / City / State / Approx. distance in miles from the newspaper's home office | Weekday sales | Households | Penetration % (daily sales per 100 households) | Median household income | Non-white % of population |
Hispanic % of population |
Black % of population |
Native % of population |
Asian % of population |
|
43138 / Logan / OH / 0 mi. | 3,485 | 6,973 | 50.0 | $32,636 | 2.7 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.1 | |
43149 / Rockbridge / OH / 8.6 mi. | 253 | 981 | 25.8 | $38,177 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.2 | |
45764 / Nelsonville / OH / 10.2 mi. | 130 | 3,545 | 3.7 | $23,424 | 5.8 | 0.9 | 3.2 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
43135 / Laurelville / OH / 15.6 mi. | 99 | 1,693 | 5.8 | $34,291 | 1.5 | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
43766 / New Straitsville / OH / 10.1 mi. | 91 | 617 | 14.7 | $27,188 | 2.8 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 0.0 | 0.1 | |
45654 / New Plymouth / OH / 10.2 mi. | 57 | 373 | 15.3 | $33,080 | 0.8 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
43158 / Union Furnace / OH / 5.2 mi. | 55 | 47 | 117.0 | $36,058 | 3.3 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 2.5 | 0.0 | |
43152 / South Bloomingville / OH / 16.3 mi. | 33 | 416 | 7.9 | $36,071 | 1.8 | 0.9 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
43127 / Haydenville / OH / 5.3 mi. | 26 | 23 | 113.0 | $19,000 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | |
43130 / Lancaster / OH / 16.2 mi. | 26 | 21,621 | 0.1 | $37,967 | 4.3 | 0.7 | 2.0 | 0.3 | 0.4 | |
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